California faces a rare combination of weather warnings Monday as a system spinning off the coast simultaneously creates rough seas and elevated fire weather danger.
A low-pressure system is expected to become cut off from the storm track and move south Monday and Tuesday, roughly paralleling the California coast from San Francisco to San Diego. As the cutoff low heads south, counterclockwise-moving air around its center will bring dry, windy conditions to the north and cooler, potentially wetter conditions to the south.
The system is predicted to be so strong that the National Weather Service office in Eureka has issued a storm warning for the waters 10 to 60 miles off the coast from Point St. George to Cape Mendocino. Waves over the open sea could reach heights of 20 to 25 feet…